Comments on: Court overturns decision on Taubman mallhttp://libn.com/2009/01/30/court-overturns-decision-on-taubman-mall/
The premier source of Long Island news and data on business, economic trends and the region’s robust entrepreneurial sector.Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:42:40 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5By: Clifford Sondock, President of the Land Use Institutehttp://libn.com/2009/01/30/court-overturns-decision-on-taubman-mall/comment-page-1/#comment-2300
Clifford Sondock, President of the Land Use InstituteSun, 01 Feb 2009 18:10:34 +0000http://libn.com/?p=5655#comment-2300“Howard Avrutine, an attorney with Goldstein and Avrutine in Syosset, which represents the coalition of local homeowners who have been fighting the mall”…is incorrect when he states that communities and towns have “rights”…towns have Government power, individual’s have rights.

Towns are appendages of the state.

Towns are not sovereign…states and individual’s are sovereign.

The state appellate judge has the responsibility to check an abuse of state Government power by a town.

This appellate state judge has neglected his responsibility and allowed the abuse of Government power by the Town of Oyster Bay.

Long Islanders can only hope that the Taubman Company uses its financial resources to pursue its self interest in overturning the appellate court’s ruling and, in so doing, pursue the preservation of private property rights that is waning on Long Island.

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Clifford Sondock, President of the Land Use InstituteSun, 01 Feb 2009 17:50:59 +0000http://libn.com/?p=5655#comment-2298The Appellate Court’s ruling is a travesty of justice and demonstrates the court’s contempt for both private property rights and free markets.

Government’s role is to preserve and protect individual property rights, not to impose the will of special interests over the rights of an individual property owner or enable local governments to dictate land use.

There is a strong correlation between the contempt for private property rights and Long Island’s alarming decline in quality of life.

Long Island suffers, not only from its lack of economic freedom, but increasingly from the loss of political freedom by a more tyrannical and authoritarian Governmant.

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David PennettaSat, 31 Jan 2009 22:00:38 +0000http://libn.com/?p=5655#comment-2264Was this “coalition of local homeowners” also the reason that the almost 3 million other Long Islanders don’t have LI expressway services road through this same area from the Seaford Oysterbay Expressway to Robbins lane?
Won’t the construction jobs created, the sales revenues generated and ultimatley the tax revenues generated benefit the other almost 3 million Long Islanders that live here too?
This is located directly along the LIE, the most major thoughfare we have- what better place to put this. If someone wants to put hundreds of millions of dollars into our local economy, let them do it. It benefits the needs of the many over the needs of the few, something that should be considered.
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